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| It basically means PostgreSQL is a distributed company I would argue that it means that different companies using PostgreSQL help fund PostgreSQL development
by chipotle_coyote 9y ago
| It basically means PostgreSQL is a distributed company
I would argue that it means that different companies using PostgreSQL help fund PostgreSQL development. That's not the same thing as being a single company. It's a model which clearly works very well for PostgreSQL, but it doesn't really give us good data on whether the "single company doing closed source development" (e.g., Oracle) and "single company driving the bulk of open source development" (e.g., MongoDB) models would have worked as well for them.